It is not in the realm of science fiction that a humanoid robot will be walking side by side with the police officers in ...

Humanoid robots are starting to gain something that once belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction: a sense of pain.

In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, we ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Remember when robots were just science-fiction fantasies or clunky machines bolted to factory floors? That world is vanishing before our eyes. While you’ve been focused on generative AI and digital ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Fast and complex multi-finger movements generated by the hand exoskeleton. Credit: Shinichi Furuya When it comes to fine-tuned motor skills like playing the piano, practice, they say, makes perfect.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...